Azure Site Recovery support for Storage Spaces and Windows Server 2016

We recently announced the public preview of disaster recovery for Azure IaaS machines, which allows you to replicate applications between Azure regions. This capability reduces the complexity involved in setting up disaster recovery and helps you stay compliant by having a business continuity plan in place to keep applications available during a disaster.

Azure virtual machines running on the Windows Server 2016 platform and / or configured with Storage Spaces can now be protected with Azure Site Recovery.

Windows Server 2016

Azure workloads running on Windows Server 2016 can now be replicated across Azure regions with ASR. With this update, ASR supports the following Windows and Linux OS types in Azure:

Storage Spaces is a popular configuration on Azure virtual machines to improve input/output performance by striping disks and to create logical disks larger than 4 TB. Now, large SQL workloads, with more than 4TB of storage built using Storage Spaces, can be protected to another Azure DC.